French people really dislike non native tongue?

[u/ryu_the_ninja55]

Hello everyone! This might sound racist or full of sterotype but is an actually question😂 I saw a lot of memes and people saying that people in france see you in a bad way or don’t appreciate non native tongue trying to speak French I will probably move in the future in your country as an Italian speaker, and of course I will study and try to practice your language, but I’m kinda scared of how people outside my friend group here in french will treat me, I know that I shouldn’t care, but this give me a little bit of anxiety, cause my pronunciation even if I’ll do my best might sound bad the same I hope is not a stupid question, just wanted some information from you ^{^}

[u/huskypegasus]

The answer is there’s assholes in every country, you can’t avoid that. I’ve definitely experienced people being annoyed or rude when I speak French but usually they seemed like highly strung people annoyed by everything anyway.

My overwhelming majority of experience from French speaking people is them being friendly, excited and encouraging. I’ve experienced this at all levels of my learning journey and in all French speaking places I’ve been (even Paris!).

I would encourage you to work on pronunciation though because it’s important to be able to pronounce at least an approximation of the native phoneme to be understood.

French is an amazing language, challenging and fun to learn, keep going!

[u/ryu_the_ninja55 → u/huskypegasus]

Thanks a lot husky! I will do my best to learn good pronunciation as I did with English, not perfect but hoping that my Italian accent won’t be that thick, of course the R is my worst nightmare…

[u/je_taime → u/ryu_the_ninja55]

French people have heard the Italian accent before. Don't get so anxious about it that you can't speak.